BCD(6)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, gather round — this is BCD(6), and it's giving three whole commands in one little page: bcd, ppt, and morse. their whole thing? reformat your input as punch cards, paper tape, or morse code. yes fr, the vintage tech era said "hold my 🍓" and here we are.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bcd [string ...]
ppt [-d|string ...]
morse [-ds string ...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so like, the bcd, ppt and morse commands read whatever input you hand them and reformat it in the form of punched cards, paper tape or morse code respectively. no cap, that's the whole vibe. 🫶

and where does the input come from? two places, bestie:

• command line arguments
• or the standard input

either one, you're covered. 💅

🌸 Available option 🌸

• -s — for morse, this one produces dots and dashes rather than words. so like . - . instead of the actual alphabet situation. iconic honestly.
• -d — this one decodes. it decodes ppt output, or morse output consisting of dots and slashes (as generated by using the -s option). so yeah, it's the reverse-uno card of this whole operation. 🔥

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the receipts, bestie, the whole bibliography — go read these if you want the full lore:

• ISO 1681:1973: Information processing--Unpunched paper cards--Specification.
• ISO 1682:1973: Information processing--80 columns punched paper cards--Dimensions and location of rectangular punched holes.
• ECMA-10: ECMA Standard for Data Interchange on Punched Tape.
• ITU-T Recommendation F.1: Operational provisions for the international public telegram service, Division B, I. Morse code.

and that's the whole page, bestie 💜 this lil gem comes to you from Debian, dated November 26, 2002 — yes she's vintage, yes she still slays, periodt. ✨👑